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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (201073)	9/12/2012 10:55:47 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541992

Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified January 25, 2001 Richard Clarke Memo: "We urgently need . . . a Principals level review on the al Qida network." Document Central to Clarke-Rice Dispute on Bush Terrorism Policy Pre-9/11 gwu.edu 2001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, Pakistan Larry Womack Published: Tuesday September 26, 2006 Print This Email This [New to RAW STORY? Be sure to check out our front page for all the latest breaking news.] A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned. "We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. "Big pieces were missing," Rice added, "like an approach to Pakistan that might work, because without Pakistan you weren't going to get Afghanistan." Rice made the comments in response to claims made Sunday by former President Bill Clinton, who argued that his administration had done more than the current one to address the al Qaeda problem before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She stopped short of calling the former president a liar. However, RAW STORY has found that just five days after President George W. Bush was sworn into office, a memo from counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke to Rice included the 2000 document, " Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." This document devotes over 2 of its 13 pages of material to specifically addressing strategies for securing Pakistan's cooperation in airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. rawstory.com